Board of Directors

Stefan Klocek – Board PresidentStefan is a digital product designer who leads a user experience design team at Google. He’s worked in design and technology for over 15 years, developing an expertise in solving complex design challenges, producing products which are simple and effective for humans to use. He’s designed innovative solutions in the realms of healthcare, tech infrastructure, and finance. Stefan balances his work with hands-on wood craft in his shop, and spending time outdoors with his wife and two children. Stefan went K-12 grade at the Sacramento Waldorf School. He has a son in 1st grade, and a daughter in preschool at Berkeley Rose.

stefan@berkeleyrose.org or cell 415.999.2600

Amy Vitarelli – Board Vice President

Amy is a Commercial Insurance Broker by trade and assists with risk management including insurance, human resources and legal matters. Prior to entering the insurance industry in 2002, Amy worked for a national consulting firm and in the technology field for several years, working on domestic and international projects. Amy has Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Environmental Studies from Mills College, Oakland. Amy attended the Sacramento Waldorf School for grades 4-12 and has two daughters at the Berkeley Rose Waldorf School.

Robert Schorlemmer – Board Treasurer
Robert Schorlemmer is the Treasurer and Director of Finance at Berkeley Rose. Robert studied physics and finance in Munich, Tokyo and Berkeley. He is also a Waldorf teacher training graduate. Robert worked as a CPA for Ernst & Young across the US. With Black & Decker, he carried out audits in Europe and the Americas. He also served as a lecturer and foreign expert in China. In his spare time, Robert runs a small nonprofit that supports a village in Colombia, South America. Robert was born in Barcelona and grew up in Rome and Hamburg. He speaks seven languages.

Bonnie Romanow – Board Secretary
Bonnie is a consultant in the Early Childhood Mental Health Project and a Parent Educator with Parents Place, Marin. Bonnie has taken many courses and workshops in Waldorf , she has been an early childhood teacher, preschool director, and founding member of the Great Oaks School in the Chicago area. Upon moving to California, Bonnie taught parent-tot at Summerfield and Marin Waldorf schools. Her work with parents and their children under three years of age led her to the Touchpoints and RIE I training programs, all compatible with the Waldorf approach. Bonnie has served on the governing body of both the Chicago Waldorf School and the Great Oaks School, and as secretary for Preschool Council of Evanston. Currently she is a mentor in the LifeWays Program. Bonnie worked with at-risk teens for the Youth-At-Risk community program, as well as with birth parents and adoptive parents. Parent education and support has always been a part of her work. Bonnie is entering her sixth year with Berkeley Rose Waldorf School.

Vasilica Hall – Faculty chair
A native of Romania, Vasilica received her eurythmy diploma from Akademie fur Eurythmische Kunst, in Dornach, Switzerland, followed by a post graduate diploma from the Eurythmy School Spring Valley. From 2001-2007 she taught eurythmy in grades 5-12 at Garden City Waldorf School, Long Island, NY. In the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, she teaches weekend eurythmy classes in all 3 years. For two years before joining the early childhood program, Vasilica was a substitute teacher for ages 2.9 to 6 at Berkeley Rose, and has completed her education in early childhood development courses. Vasilica is entering her sixth year with Berkeley Rose.

Megan Coleman – Administrative Chair
Before joining our school as a parent in 2013, Megan worked as an Administrator helping to start Nevada Sage Waldorf School in Reno, NV. Megan has recently graduated from the Bay Area Center for Teacher Training, and is currently in the Mulberry School Curative Education training program.

Amanda Chanda – Parent Council Representative
Amanda is a Clinical Trial Manager working at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, which serves populations with rare and ultra-rare diseases. With over 15 years of experience in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry, Amanda brings expertise of team management, organization management and sustainable company growth to the Berkeley Rose Board. When she is not at work or chasing her two boys (in K and 1st grade at BRS), Amanda enjoys exercising, hiking and assisting recent refugees to resettle in the greater bay area.

Sarah Romanow Briand – parent
Sarah Briand has been a parent at Berkeley Rose since her oldest child started at the school in its second year. Through her work on the Site Search Committee, she has been involved in all aspects of the school’s two, soon to be three, locations since it moved from a home-based program to an independent school. She was instrumental in the development of the first BRWS Parent Council where she served for two years. She joined the Board in 2014. When not searching for new homes for the school, she works as a midwife at a community health center in the East Bay, where she enjoys working with women and teaching the next generation of midwives.

James Johnson – parent

James Johnson is an independent 3d sound designer providing consultation and production services for film, stage, theme parks, museums, and music productions. Previously, James worked in the fields of renewable energy, conservation, and healthy building design. James currently serves on the BRS facilities committee with an eye towards health and sustainability. He is involved with various fundraising and community outreach efforts for the school. When not chasing around his partner and their Sunflower daughter, he has also been known to clean a few Berkeley Rose Waldorf School windows.

Khori Dastoor – parent
Khori currently serves as Program Officer for a Bay Area family foundation responsible for initiatives encompassing arts, music, and archaeology. In this capacity she works closely with various grantee organizations on a wide-range of collaborative projects involving performance, historical conservation, and digital musicology. Previously, Khori enjoying a vibrant operatic career as a lyric soprano on stages throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. She lives in Oakland with her husband and daughter, who is currently thriving in the nursery program at Berkeley Rose.

If you would like to contact the board please email Stefan Klocek, our Board President.